Judiciary
One sees people take positions of similar structure to Ken Block’s, here, on many issues, from immigration to finance to healthcare to science: One of humanity’s great advantages is that we can divide the labor of understanding. One person figures something out, and others can build on his or her conclusions without necessarily repeating all…
John DePetro and Justin Katz marvel at the built-in corruption at the state and federal levels.
But Mark Steyn clarifies it with his usual panache: … one hears so much breezy chit-chat in America about appealing this and appealing that one takes one’s appellate rights for granted. Not so. In order to appeal, a losing party has to post a bond for the amount at issue. … This is no small…
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the dislodged line between politics and administration in Rhode Island government.
As a conservative writer in Rhode Island, I find it difficult to know where to begin a reaction to the apparent, likely, or maybe only as-yet possible decision of the United States Supreme Court to reverse Roe v. Wade this session. The place to start, I suppose, is with the biggest and most-obvious point. Unless our…
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen it characterized as “doubling down” before when a party to a lawsuit has appealed to a higher court, but here’s Sarah Doiron on WPRI: Several parents who are challenging the state’s school mask mandate are doubling down on their efforts by appealing a Rhode Island Superior Court judge’s…
Of course Katie Mulvaney would fail to include a single expression of contrary concern about a survey finding (surprise, surprise) that many identity groups involved with the Rhode Island judiciary believe they have suffered from discrimination there in her Providence Journal article. Apart from journalists’ general agreement with the progressive talking points, who in Rhode…
John and Justin talk about people and groups that are in and out of political races and trends.
It’s encouraging to see that some families in Rhode Island have had enough and are willing to take to court to defend their civil rights, as Kim Kalunian reports on WPRI: Sixteen parents and grandparents have filed a lawsuit against Gov. Dan McKee over his statewide school mask mandate. The complaint, filed in Providence Superior…
The First Circuit’s ruling in Gaspee vs. the Board of Elections is a bad omen, but the contempt the judges show is worse.
